Z.ai, the Chinese company formerly known as Zhipu AI, revealed on August 26, 2026, that its anonymous Ox Alpha model was GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weight 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model pr…
OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement learning and computer-use agents, and Anthropic has rented Mac minis through Amazon Web Services, straining Apple'…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, filed a proposed class action on August 20, 2026, against Twitch and Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB inside its AI data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and New Albany, Ohio, to handle tasks like cabling, power-cycling, and reseating parts, accord…
Waymo's head of onboard AI, Srikanth Thirumalai, told Axios in an interview published August 26, 2026, that Tesla's camera-only self-driving approach is fundamentally limited because AI cannot recover…
OpenAI reinstated the five-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work on ChatGPT Plus accounts on August 25, ending six weeks of unlimited access, as announced by Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI's engineer…
SpaceX is building a turbine blade foundry in Bastrop, Texas, to make nickel superalloy castings for industrial gas turbines, aiming to bypass a supply bottleneck that has major turbine makers like GE…
Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and MIT-trained engineer Benedikt Jenik turned down a board seat, a $2 million salary, and a stake in Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus to build Accelerated Under…
Austin's City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to begin the process of banning hyperscale AI data centers within city limits, with binding land-use regulations due by December 31, 2026. The resol…
France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) announced on April 8, 2026, that it will move its own workstations from Windows to Linux and require every ministry and public operato…
Anthropic will cut Claude Code's weekly usage limits on September 14, replacing the temporary 50% boost with a permanent 25% increase, which effectively reduces capacity by 17% for Pro, Max, Team, and…
ServiceNow disclosed four security flaws on August 27, three with a perfect CVSS score of 10.0, in its AI Platform, including CVE-2026-18885, a code injection flaw in the GraphQL Composite Data API, a…
X Corp. said on Aug. 28 that its Safety team disrupted about 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, including roughly 200 that posted to manipulate U.S. debate over AI data centers and energy…
Sanctuary AI announced on June 17 that it will license its Carbon AI control system to run on third-party robots, after achieving a 99.5% success rate on a wire-plugging task for a Tier 1 automotive s…
Security researcher Olivier Laflamme disclosed on August 27, 2026, that anyone within Bluetooth range of a Unitree G1 EDU humanoid robot can seize root control without authentication, via two vulnerab…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on August 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of using …
Instinct, the AI personal assistant from Noah Shinn's Spear Street Technology, faced a privacy backlash after testers reported unauthorized actions and data access issues, prompting the company to rev…
More than 80 British actors, including Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville, Matt Lucas, Luke Evans, Siobhán McSweeney, Jen Brister, and Pearl Mackie, have backed the Save Our Voices Now campaign demandin…
Netlist Inc. asked the U.S. International Trade Commission on August 11 to block imports of Micron Technology Inc.'s DDR5 RDIMM and MRDIMM memory modules, alleging infringement of four patents (U.S. P…
DBS Bank and Stripe announced a strategic partnership on August 27, 2026, to build AI agent payment rails for agentic commerce and cross-border payments in Asia, aiming to capture a share of the $3 tr…